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![International Women’s Day 1995](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/5/1995Call Number: JG/ 087BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Judy Siff of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee who speaks of the creation, destruction and recreation of International Women's Day. It is a day when women recognize women who are in struggle around the world. Siff advocates visiting women in prison and describes the situation of Laura Whitehorn, an anti-racist political prisoner accused of resistance conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years of prison.
Readings from Margaret Randall's 'Sandino's Daughters Revisited,' a book of interviews and commentary about Nicaraguan feminism following the defeat of the FSLN in 1990. The book describes how the Sandinista movement brought women into public leadership but within its male-dominated power structure. Following are excerpts of an interview with Michelle Nageles, a feminist activist at the University of Central America who envisions a newfound solidarity amongst women in Nicaragua.
![Interview with Hugo Pinell at Pelican Bay](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Pinell discusses his reasons to refuse cooperation with the federal government; theories of personal vs. general freedom, suffering and justice; the connection of bad prison conditions with an inherently flawed system; and philosophies he has learned from other inmates within the system. "Us poor, the best way we survive is we create our own world. But it's not. The whole world is our world. I'm just as special as everyone else in the world."
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